Happy New Year...1 week Late

Wow.
I'm amazed I remembered my password to get in here!
Time flies when you're having fun.... and that is what I've been doing the past THREE weeks.
Our family went back "home" to Iowa for Christmas. 
While I missed regular doses of Hotmail, Blogger, and Facebook,
it was wonderful having real face time with loved ones - some whom I hadn't seen in over 2 years.


Last January I stated my goal for the year was to have more "Joy of the Lord".  (Nehemiah 8:10)
Happy to say I'm improved .... although still working on that one.

This year, I want to focus on discovering God's omniscient plan for my life and then resting in His timing.

Psalm 1: 3 should be a nice theme verse.
(v. 1,2) "Blessed is the man whose... delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. (v.3) He is like a tree planted be streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers."

Catch that?   "...yields its fruit in season"

I wish I could do it all now. 
Gonna need some prayer for meeting this year's resolution.

Being like Mary

This morning I am wondering if I tend to be a "Mary".   I'm not referring to Mary as in Mary and Martha of the famed Bible story (see Luke 10:38-42).  I'm referring to the Nursery rhyme Mary,Mary, quite contrary sort of Mary.

Last night at supper, my husband and I started rattling off our four-year-old daughter's catch phrases. 
Phrases she'll regularly throw into a conversation as random and out of place as a pull-string doll.
Phrases like:   "I want Mommy"
                      "I'm hun-gry"  or   "I want cereal"
                       "I don't want to"
                       "I don't like that"

She really is a sweet girl.  But she can be a bit contrary at times. So when she is being contrary, Dan and I have taken to calling her "Mary" - as in the Nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary, quite contrary)

Do I do that?  Do I ever tell God "I don't want to" or "I don't like that" ?
I'm pretty sure I do.  And unfortunately, I probably even use my 4-year old whine voice to match.

I'd like to be more like Mary of Mary and Martha.  Sitting still and peaceful at the foot of Jesus.  Worshipping Him.  Delighting in His presence and not worrying about all my tasks for the day.
I think I could be, too.............. except ............ I don't want to   ;)